Sweden’s been stealthily using hydrogen to forge green steel. Now it’s ready to industrialise

Deep in Sweden’s icy north sits a small factory where the country’s largest industrial players have been steadily validating a new technology that could clean up one of the dirtiest industries on Earth.  Energy giant Vattenfall, steel-maker SSAB, and mining firm LKAB built the facility — located in the small town of Luleå — in 2020, as part of the HYBRIT project. The initiative aims to prove that steel can be made on an industrial scale using hydrogen and clean electricity.  “Using hydrogen to produce steel is still in its very early stages,” an SSAB representative told TNW. “It represents…

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